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0. DE QUILLPELDT.

BOTTLE STOPPBR EXTRACTOR.

No. 369,046. Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

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6 Ma aw UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES D E QUILLFELDT, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPER EXTRACTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,046, dated August '30, 1887,

Serial No. 209,776. (No model.)

' of a wire bail, or its equivalent, attached to or about the bottle-neck.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 3 are plan views of two modifications of a bottle-stopper extractor constructed according to the present invention, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of Fig. 1. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are elevational views of four different kinds of bailsupplied'bottle-stoppers, each closed in the mouth of a bottle, and each view showing my improved opener or extractor applied in position ready to swing the bail aside for releasing and removing the cork or bottlestopper. Fig. 8 is a detail view (seen in direction of arrows 3 of Figs. 2 and 4) showing the manner in which the ends of the forked lever engage the bottle-stopper bail.

ally, or diverging from the crotch, and also bent or deflected transversely thereto, both toward the same direction, the ends of the forkprongs being bent inward in line with and opposite to eachcther.

The tool may be cast in one piece; but it is preferably made of wire, either in one piece, when a single fork is used, or in two pieces secured together,when a double fork is used that is, one fork at each end of the shank.

Ais the shank of the extractor co, the prongs ofthefork-lever; b, the crotch or angle between the prongs c, and d d their extreme ends,which are bent inward or toward the crotch'andeach other, and by which the bail of the bottle-stopper is engaged, in order to be swung aside for extracting the cork or stopper. Figs. 4-, 5, 6, 7 show plainly how to use the instrument.

The fork-lever is simply let down upon the bottle so that it will bear against the bottleneck, with two points on the inside of the prongs c at opposite sides of the crotch, thus forming a fulcrum for the lever,while the inward-bent ends d engage the wire bail of the stopper. The handle end is then depressed, as indicated by arrow 1 in Fig. 4, which causes the bail to swing aside, as indicated by arrow 2, thus releasing the stopper.

In order to make the instrument light and strong,as well as cheap, I make it of a wire by bending the latter in the required shape and securing together its free ends at the crotch b,

either by giving them a slighttwist at a, as in Fig. 4, or by soldering to them a surrounding metallic band, as at a in Figs. 1 and 2'.

The instrument is made integral of one single piece of wire bent back upon itself, so as to form a loop for the handle, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

How the leverage is obtained for swinging the bail aside I have shown in Figs. 4 to 7, inclusive. A reference to Fig. 8 will explain two important points-first, that the instrument will adjust itself to always bring the two ends d in contact with the wire bail, and,

second, that in depressing the handle A the endsrl have no tendency to slip off laterally from contact with the wire bail. In the said figure the circle 0 represents the outline of the cross-section of the bottle-neck, and B the wire bail in cross-section.

It will be plainly seen that, owing to the gradual diverging of the prongs c at the crotch b, the fulcrum-points, or points of contact between the prongs c and the bottle-neck surface 0, will always be so located that the line :0 w,

drawn through the axis of the handle 'A, will also go through the center of the bottle-neck 0, thus causing both of the ends d to engage the wire bail simultaneously.

It will. further be seen that (owing to the fact that the said ends (Z d are not bent inward, so as to be in the same axial line 3 but are bent toward the crotch b, so that their axial lines 9 e and cf make an obtuse angle with each other) when the handle is depressed the said ends d press upon the wire bail B in direction of arrows 4, and of course the counteraction or resistance of the bail is in the opposite direction or in direction of arrows 5, thus insuring a steadygrip of the fork ends upon the bail without any tendency to slip off therefrom laterally until the bail is swung aside to release and remove the stopper.

I am aware that a corkscrew has been constructed with two prongs projecting at right angles to the shank thereof, the said two prongs having their ends bentin ward to adapt the corkscrew also for use as an extractor, and I do not claim such construction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bottle-stopper opener consisting of a wire CHAS. DE QUILLFELDT.

\Vitnesses:

A. XV. Amrovrs'r, T. M. CROSSMAN, 

